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James and Claire Short, Adventures at Sea!
28 March, 2014
Heaven forfend(ers)

You wouldn’t believe it, we’ve spent so long anchoring in harbours and bays that we’ve completely forgotten the drill for coming alongside a pontoon.   When we called in at Le Marin, Martinique to refuel and take water on board we were seconds from the pontoon when the marinero remarked ‘Capitaine – no fenders!’ so we […]

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23 March, 2014
Boiling Lake, Dominica

Once is enough!   Our visit to the Boiling Lake, the second largest one in the world, was a 7 hour round trip hike.  When we weren’t going up vertically, we were going down and when we weren’t going down we were going up …. It was unrelenting!    Thank goodness we set off at 0630 – […]

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20 March, 2014
Birthday Boy

James woke this morning to the strains of Happy Birthday … from the next door boat!   We have yet to discover who is celebrating but James celebrated last night at the mid-week beach BBQ at Portsmouth, Dominica!   The food was just as good as the one we’d attended a few weeks ago but the music […]

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18 March, 2014
The Emerald Isle

What a great time to be in Montserrat.   There are only two countries in the world that have a National Holiday on St Patrick's Day - Ireland and Montserrat!   A week of activities and celebrations including an official 'pub crawl' (no - we didn't participate!), a freedom run and lots of concerts and shows lead […]

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14 March, 2014
Awesome Volcano

Where to start!  We had a great time in English Harbour, Antigua with the Glyn-Jones’, lunches on board, superb dinner ashore at the Inn and a great day sail to Indian Creek.  Then Jon arrived on Hecla and we had a final supper with him on board Ocean Rainbow for this season as we go […]

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9 March, 2014
Weekend Retreat

After an exhausting few days sailing to and checking in at Falmouth, Antigua we decided a weekend retreat in Deep Bay was just what we needed.    The anchorage came highly recommended and has lived up to expectations.  We really enjoyed snorkelling over the wreck of the ‘Andes’ – a first time for diving over a […]

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6 March, 2014
ODI – Antigua

Sailing took a back seat for the day – we went to the Sir Vivien Richards’ Memorial Cricket Grounds and watched England play the West Indies!   What an amazing experience.   It was the third day of the ODI series (tied at one all) and, on the advice of our taxi driver, we had seats on […]

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3 March, 2014
St David's Day

We had fun celebrating our first St David's Day in the Caribbean.   We flew our flags and ate leeks for supper which we shared with Colin and Izzi from Endorphin.  They arrived brandishing a leek and dressed in red, white and green!   They seem to have decided that dressing-up is obligatory on Ocean Rainbow!     On […]

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